Two longstanding concerns of analytic liberal political philosophy and ethics are how to justify egalitarianism and how a theory of egalitarianism should deal with so-called human variation. These concerns have given rise to questions about what people are owed and what they deserve. Are social inequalities between individuals justified if they occur due to differences […]
The Morality of Risk and Harm
there is not one such thing as being right. We use normative language like ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ for many purposes – to talk about what we should do from a first person perspective and to talk about how to judge other people’s actions from a third person perspectives (singular and plural), about who to praise and who to blame, about how to deal with the consequences of our actions and about how to assign responsibilities, etc.